Fossil-fuel plants are increasingly being forced to stop and start production in response to changes in output from renewables. In a new study, researchers developed a dynamic competitive benchmark ...

To make their point, the researchers chose to look into the maximum potential of solar panels—covering every roof in the world with them, to see what sort of impact that might have. To do so ...

Solar panels attached to a roof in Germany, where solar power adoption is spreading rapidly. Credit: EigenStromD/Wikimedia Commons Solar power is often lauded as a "cleaner" form of energy than ...